ONTD Original: Celebrity Cruise Ship Godparents

[squirrels_oh_no]

Did you know that it is a tradition for ships to have a godmother (or, more recently, godparent given that now men are being invited to serve in the role)? This is true for most ships - in many Navies around the world, ships have a sponsor and Godmother, often someone related to the person the ship is named for or with connections to the place it

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[fantasialopez]

The cruise posts lately have been really interesting! My boyfriend works for one of these lines and gets a crazy discount, so we're going on a cruise this year - KP is my ship's godmother, apparently. I gotta hit him with that bit of trivia later lol.

[squirrels_oh_no]

I assume he works for NCL then haha.

I meant to include (I could still edit it since I had to already because I made two typos) that Celebrity Cruises, as a fun fact, is nearing equity for the male/female ratio of female to male bridge crew members, while all the other cruise lines only have a smattering of female bridge officers. I think the Beyond has more women than men period on the bridge (at least when Captain Kate is in command, but it might be because they want to give the younger women a strong role model - the second in command on their newest ship is a woman, too). When I was on NCL last year, I think they only had one female bridge crew member and she was very young comparatively and not high ranking.

[fantasialopez]

I would LOVE to be on the ship with the cat lol.

[squirrels_oh_no]

Not just a normal cat but a Sphynx with lots of cute outfits including her own captain uniform!

[picturemegone]

There's no way I would have the upper body strength to break it on my own but I can press a button lol

[januarysix]

where is that Lady Gaga gif where she's breaking a bottle on a ship?

[squirrels_oh_no]

Hahaha not a ship that was a tour bus!

[januarysix]

oh dumb me but she is the godmother of some cruise ship according to google

[squirrels_oh_no]

https://howtohavefuncruising.com/blogs/news/godmothers-of-ships-and-cruises-interesting-story

Lol yes i missed a bunch there are just so many. I meant to add JLo being the sorta godmother to a Virgin Voyages ship but forgot.

ETA LMAO so um all of these are wrong. Ignore this link.

[picturemegone]

I wonder how much they get paid to do this?

[squirrels_oh_no]

Probably a fair bit, it's all marketing nowadays. Some cruise lines also use nonprofit leaders or female explorers or whatever and maybe just make a hefty donation to their charity.

[squirrels_oh_no]

Probably should have included this video since this is a recent video from The View lmao.

[justabwaybaby]

Speaking of this cruise- the guy who went on the MAGA-ish rant (only saw a minute or so so I don't know quite how far he went)? My parents' neighbor. My mom is hoping he decides to get off in LA.

[squirrels_oh_no]

How do your parents feel about that TikTok guy who seemingly got on only to try and create drama? IE I think the guy from this video LOL. I saw at one point he said he was trying to start a riot when they couldn't go to the Falklands because of the weather and he demanded to see penguins.

[justabwaybaby]

I don't know if they really paid that much attention to him? I think they found their little group of 50-65 year olds that they mostly stick to now. One woman is getting off in LA and then is coming back for the last leg. She says she wants to see who is left in the end😂